Introduction 1
Chapter One Aesthetic Contemplation and Morality 21
Ⅰ. Between James and Pater's Idea of Being 22
Ⅱ. Being and Moral Collapse 34
Ⅲ. Being and Freedom 46
Ⅳ. Being and the Higher Morality 59
Chapter Two Artistic Creation and Morality 79
Ⅰ. The Conflict between Artistic Creation and Morality 80
Ⅱ. Art Reduced to Literary Clichés and Egoism 94
Ⅲ. Art Reduced to Social Conventions and Tyranny 104
Ⅳ. Art as the Revelation of Value and Morality 113
Chapter Three Detachment in Art and Its Moral Significance 126
Ⅰ. Aesthetic Detachment and Morality 128
Ⅱ. Artistic Detachment and Morality 156
Conclusion 168
Works Cited 175